Extraordinary Grunge Paintings by Russ Mills
Online gallery for UK Artist/Illustrator RUSS MILLS. Source

Online gallery for UK Artist/Illustrator RUSS MILLS. Source

Some of the pictures you may have seen before, but I decided to put them up in one collection, just to emphasize that.. well, in Soviet Russia (and in modern Russia too) motorist’s life can be somewhat complicated. Russians “love affair with cars” starts early, from the very infancy:
Throughout their life they are indoctrinated with propaganda:
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1. Stormy Baltic Sea These pictures are “just in” - a recent storm in Europe put many ships at risk.
Like some Godzilla monster, the giant crane looms over the city
Early in the morning it arrives at the city dock to begin the bridge construction for the man-made island in Kagoshima bay. Boom length: 132m. Lifting capacity: 3700 tons!
It’s “Yoshida” - Japanese biggest floating crane, built by Mitsubishi heavy Industries Division.
1. Bolivia’s “Road of Death”
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. If other roads could be considered impassable, this one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses.
A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the world’s most dangerous road.”
Among the route there are many visible reminders of accidents, wrecked carcasses of lorries and trucks lie scattered around at the bottom… (read BBC article)
We’ll start with a famous shot of a storm approaching over the sea. This is a tropical cyclone “Graham” forming over the Pacific Ocean (off the northwest coast of Australia) -

(image credit: Steve Todd)
This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. Some factoids:





